When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count! - Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait. - Jess C. Scott, The Intern

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! - Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. - Scott Adams

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. - Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. - Christopher Moore

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all. - Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

Life is a book. We fill the pages. - Victoria Valentine

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than a star;Tame wild disappointmentWith caress unmoved and coldMake of it a parkaFor your soul.Discover the reason whySo tiny human midgetExists at allSo scared unwiseBut expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise. - Alice Walker

I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else. - Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. - Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. - Natalie Clifford Barney

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. - Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. - John Green

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. - L.M. Montgomery

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul - Karl Lagerfeld

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like. - Brian Tracy

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? - Margaret Atwood, Power Politics

I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to. - John Green, Looking for Alaska